Change is slow, but once in a while there is a tipping point. The voice is one of those moments

Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags in Canberra ahead of the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum. ‘What comes after it will be ours to decide.’ Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

As a songwriter and storyteller, it’s my job to get to the heart of things. Through the highways and byways of the heart and of society, we trudge and trail until the path becomes clear enough for the right words to emerge, for the story to be told and finally, for the song to be sung.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart came with an invitation for everyone to walk with First Nations people toward a better nation. So a couple of years ago I set off on a journey to do just that.